The food that's most reflective of a culture is street food, eaten by locals every day on their way to and from work, frequently prepared outside their homes or offices with products sometimes growing (or caught) in the neighborhood. I just received my copy of Street Food around the World, edited by Colleen Sen and former Wednesday Journalcontributor Bruce Kraig. For this encyclopedia, I wrote chapters on street food I enjoyed last year in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand.

West Suburban Medical Center unveils its new Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Center Monday, Sept. 23 from 2 to 5 p.m. with a ribbon cutting ceremony and tours of the Center. The ribbon cutting begins at 3:30 p.m.

Sen. Don Harmon and Rep. Camille Lilly took it on the chin in Galewood Sept. 12 from a crowd of 60 or so town-hall listeners in a Galewood church.

In a meeting of just over an hour, assorted cries from the heart filled the air while Harmon and Lilly responded civilly but as the evening wore on, less so, even testily, with Lilly fairly shouting at one point, talking over questioners.